Closing One Door Quotes

#1. For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

Richard Powers

#2. Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.

David Berg

#3. My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

Paddy Ashdown

#4. No, I mean the key," he said. "It's made of bone."
Lex raised an eyebrow. "As in ivory?"
"As in human."
She let out a shriek and dropped it.
"Sweet dreams," he said with a smirk, closing the door.

Gina Damico

#5. There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

Tim Gunn

#6. The door creaked and I lifted my eyes to see Gee stick
her head back inside. "It's cal ed Valentine's Day, you moron," she announced. "If you're going to date a human, Dankmar, you need to remember their holidays." Gee gave me an exasperated look before closing the door once more.

Abbi Glines

#7. Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

Mother Teresa

#8. Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

Chris Ofili

#9. The furtive closing of a door is a sound the wind can make a dozen times in an hour. A flow of damp air from the lake can make any house feel empty. Such currents pull one's dreams after them, and one's own dread is always mirrored upon the dread that inheres in things.

Marilynne Robinson

#10. Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.

Clayton Christensen

#11. If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything - literally and figuratively.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

Greg Kinnear

#13. my chest tightens so much it physically hurts. The last image I see when I glance back is the door closing as Jackson's head falls into his hands. Now I know what it feels like to lose your heart.

Corinne Michaels

#14. Worry is as useless as closing the bathroom door when you live alone.

Ed Rambeau

#15. I don't want to live my life in such a hurry that I'm always closing the fridge door with my foot and scribbling out birthday cards in my car at the last minute. I want to make bread, or at least find the time to toast it.

Emily P. Freeman

#16. A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.

Leo Burnett

#17. The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority.

Evangeline Lilly

#18. Is there no peace for the naked?" Sister Mattie wore a bed cap of sensible white lace.
"I think you mean peace for the wicked," corrected Lady Linette ...
"Why would that apply?" asked Sister Mattie, before closing her door on both the problem and the noise.

Gail Carriger

#19. Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies ...

Lauren Oliver

#20. Happiness is.. looking at the closing door, then bolting them from outside and fleeing.

Vikrmn

#21. Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

Abraham Zaleznik

#22. we ended up closing the show with the cover song we had tried during sound check that afternoon, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door.

Duff McKagan

#23. Ah, mastery ... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills ... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

Gail Sheehy

#24. There were spells on opening doors and closing them, spells to ward your door, and even one to discourage Jehovah's Witnesses from your door,

Juliet Dark

#25. Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Alexander Graham Bell

#26. Faith and Hope are spiritual graces from God; therefore, to look at a situation and to say that 'it is hopeless'; or to look at one's self, and to say that 'I am hopeless', is closing the door in the face of God.

Kcat Yarza

#27. If you didn't have a real good imagination you'd probably think those noises were the sounds of some kid blowing a horn for the first time, but I knew better than that. I could tell those were the squeaks and squawks of one door closing and another one opening.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#28. The door could not be heard closing; they must have left it open as is usual in houses visited by great misfortune.

Franz Kafka

#29. little treasure as I can," Chloe's nanny said, closing the front door behind her. Dottie's children and three grandbabies lived in Alabama, so she didn't see them as often as she'd like. It was inevitable and only a matter of time before

JoAnn Durgin

#30. The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left stranded and forgotten on the riverbank, at low tide.

Lia Mills

#31. _I_ boil it." Joseph entered last, closing the door behind them. "Last time, you burnt it."
Connor glared at Joseph. "We were attacked! What would you have me tell the Abenaki? 'I cannae fight just now. I'm makin' candy. Would you like a wee taste?

Pamela Clare

#32. The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.

Andrei Makine

#33. He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

Lloyd Alexander

#34. The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

Johnny Mercer

#35. Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Ethel M. Dell

#36. Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape.

Jacqueline Winspear

#37. He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little.

Donald Ray Pollock

#38. The door wasn't closing. Shiloh's spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities.

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#39. It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

John Heywood

#40. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.

Carl Sandburg

#41. I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.

Gareth Gates

#42. I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in.

A.M. Homes

#43. I'm going to be a fairy." Sarah announced, studying her file.
"What a surprise." Nicole mumbled, closing the door.

Alaina Stanford

#44. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.

Annie Proulx

#45. She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I've developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing her in any way or of being lost.

Thomm Quackenbush

#46. Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow ... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John

J.R. Ward

#47. No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.

Thomas Dreier

#48. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

Matthieu Ricard

#49. I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

Joe Torre

#50. Closing the door on your past, gives you the keys to open the door to your limitless future.

Dr. Eddie M. Connor Jr

#51. The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

#52. He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I'm standing right there. I'm like, "Alright. You're comfortable." It was like we knew each other for four or five years, even though we had never met.

Peter Seibel

#53. A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

Alan Lightman

#54. What are you doing?"
"I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.

Abbi Glines